God’s Bits of Wood

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Imprint: Longman (Aug 11, 2008)
Fiction, Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780435909598

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In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers’ perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens. The author’s other novels include Xala and Black Docker.
Ousmane Sembène

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